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- pronunciation:
- mor
t
 l
- parts of speech:
- adjective, noun
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
not living forever; having to die some day.
All animals are mortal.- antonyms:
- immortal
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| definition 2: |
having to do with human beings; human.
Atoms cannot be seen with our mortal eyes.- synonyms:
- human
- antonyms:
- divine
- similar words:
- bodily, terrestrial
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| definition 3: |
causing or likely to cause death; fatal.
The knight raised his sword and gave the dragon a mortal blow.- synonyms:
- deadly, fatal
- similar words:
- malignant, terminal
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| definition 4: |
great and very intense; terrible and continuing.
Some people have a mortal fear of spiders.- synonyms:
- terrible
- similar words:
- enormous, excruciating, extreme, grave, great, severe
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
a human being.
The movie was about an alien who wanted to be a mortal.- synonyms:
- human, individual, person, soul
- similar words:
- creature, man, woman
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| related words: |
being, human, life, person |
| derivation: |
mortally (adv.) |
The word mortal
contains the following parts:
mort
Latin
root
that means death
  Example words:
- synonyms:
- necr, necro
-al2, -ial, -ual
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means pertaining to
More about this word part:
The suffix -al2, -ial
attaches primarily to nouns ( national
, environmental
) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots ( final
, capital
, comical
) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.
Example words:
abnormal, accidental, additional, aerial, annual, artificial, biblical, brutal, capital, central, chemical, classical, coastal, colonial, comical, commercial, confidential, constitutional, continual, controversial, conventional, criminal, critical, crucial, cultural, cylindrical, dental, detrimental, developmental, economical, editorial, educational, electrical, emotional, environmental, essential, equal, exceptional, experimental, facial, factual, federal, final, financial, floral, formal, functional, fundamental, general, global, grammatical, habitual, historical, hysterical, illogical, immoral, impersonal, impractical, individual, industrial, influential, internal, legal, local, logical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, memorial, mental, moral, mortal, musical, mythical, national, natural, nautical, neutral, normal, official, parental, personal, plural, political, potential, racial, rational, regional, irrational, intellectual, rhythmical, seasonal, spinal, spiritual, technological, thermal, tidal, traditional, tribal, typical, universal, unnatural, verbal, virtual, vocal, visual
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